I once was a Duchess

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                         By the time I awakened my mind was refreshed and all exhaustion was gone. My mind was fully awake and muscles that ached were now slowly warming up and pushing blood back into them.
I lifted up my body up off of the wagon as my hands and arms were untied. I looked down to my body to see a thin and slim dress fitted onto my body. I felt oddly clean and oddly refreshed as if I had taken a bath. My skin smelt of vanilla and honey while my lips tasted my strawberries. 
" Not just wait happened while I was asleep?" I said caressing my lips 

I got up from the wagon, As a loud and busty music continued to burst through the walls of a tavern called TWRL drinks. 
"TWRL drinks? Why-" 
" Are you back at Crex docks? Well that's because she wants to see you." 

Gerald appeared behind me as I stood in front of the door of the tavern. He was nicely dressed, With dress pants and a simple shirt with his jacket hanging over his arm. 
"Gerard?" I asked looking up to him. He looked so different here he was simply sitting in casual commoner clothes with dirt smothered on his face looking so small in size. Yet now he looks slightly toned. Still slender but some muscle defined in there. 
" Your much taller than I expected." I said smiling 
" If you're trying to distract me it won't work-" But before he could finish his sentence my leg was already up to his jaw. Colliding with his face. His head turned to the side, As he tumbled onto the dirt ground. He sat there shaken and frozen in shock.
"That's for kidnapping me." I began to walk towards him lifting my leg high up into the air preparing to dig my heel into the top of his skull.

"Gerard!" Says a young woman running up to him. But right as she was my leg was already crashing down. She blocked my hit flickering her fan open and deflecting my leg onto the other side of Gerard. 
She ignored me, Attending to Gerard as if my attack was futile and stupid. 
" Who are you?" I asked.
" The person who sent Gerard to get you." 
" And why didn't you come get me yourself."
"Because of that same temper of yours."

The young woman helped Gerard to his feet. Wiping away the blood on his lips and dusting off his body. Gerard sat there still frozen in shock staring at me and the young woman looking more uneasy and tensed up now that she was here.
The woman had long blonde straight hair while her eyes were the same as Gerald's. She had freckles kissed upon her cheeks and nose with a small beauty mark below her eyes and nose. She looked oddly familiar yet just like Gerald they lingered in my memories like a ghost.

The woman suddenly turned around walking back into the tavern, Completely ignoring me. And walking right past me as Gerard stood still next to me. 
" Make sure that you are in time for the show."
"Alright sis." He says finally relaxing his jaw.
The women opened the tavern doors, As the men inside cheered on for her. 

"You have a strong kick Ralftilia." Gerard says walking towards the tavern
"Why are you guys so calm around me its making me uneasy." I say shaking my body with the shivers I was getting.
"Because we both figured you wouldn't remember us, Well Her not me."
" And why not you? Because you never heard nor knew of me." 
" So how do you know of me and what am I supposed to be remembering?" I asked quickly loosing my temper 
" Little Ralftilia so grown now yet she remembers nothing from the good ol days."
" For the last time what on earth am I supposed to be remembering?!" I say, following after Gerard. 

Gerard holds open the door, As loud music fills throughout the large and well kept tavern. There's ladies on the main stages singing and dancing. As the instrumentalist continued to play melodies to match the womans dancing styles. 
Some dressed quite differently with fashion from around the different continents, While others had clothes that had not seen the daylight of Welzdon. 
"This is definitely Midnight Crex." I whispered to myself following behind Gerard.
" Amazing isn't it? Sis did all of this after she ran away!" Gerard says slightly yelling over the music.
"Ran away?! From where?!" I asked
"So you really don't remember her?" 
"Am I supposed to?!" 
"That's for you to figure out. And remember on your own."